Pitmaster Christopher Prieto Announces That Prime Barbecue Will Open in Knightdale in March
After delays, Prieto’s Texas-style barbecue enterprise has a brick-and-mortar location.
Chef Jake Wood to Open Lawrence BBQ in Boxyard RTP This Summer
“Growing up, I always had a thing for fire,” Wood says. “I saw how it brought everyone together.”
Durham Pitmaster Wyatt Dickson Announces Plans to Open a Second Barbecue Joint in Raleigh
Dickson, who opened Picnic in 2016, is set to open his solo venture in Raleigh in the fall of 2020.
16 Places to Eat & Drink in the Triangle on the Fourth of July
Parties, parades, potlucks, festivals, fundraisers—and fireworks!—here’s where you can get your eat and drink on.
For Acclaimed Small-Town Chef Matthew Register, Barbecue Isn’t Just a Trade. It’s a Way of Life.
“There’s a bond that’s formed especially when cooking barbecue. We all know what really goes into it: being tired, sitting up at three a.m. telling stories; it’s such a family-oriented thing.”
Best of the Triangle 2019: Eat & Drink
Our readers pick the very best spots to wine and dine in the Triangle.
2019 Food & Drink Almanac: The 10 Best Barbecue Joints in the Triangle
The best of what North Carolina cuisine is known for.
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Behind the Scenes of Competition Barbecue with Champion Pitmaster Shannon Turner
The incoming text from Shannon Turner reads, “We are in spot 292 or 3 from the start of the big rigs. We have a Raptor.” I walk down Salem Street, which has been blocked off for Apex’s annual Peak City Pig Fest, a Kansas City Barbeque Society-sanctioned competition. Behind The Promenade I spy a row…
Vegan BBQ & Scientific Beer: The Week’s Best Food Events
BOTANY OF BEER, TIME OF WINE Presented by Durham’s Parks & Recreation Department, the smart little series Botany Bar Crawl aims to explore the science of sipping craft beverages from the city’s new glut of beer makers, cider makers, and distillers. For this ticketed edition on May 15, erudite imbibers head to Fullsteam, the “plow-to-pint”…
Restaurant Review: At Durham’s Great New Barbecue Joint Picnic, The Real Innovation Is Attention to Tradition
PICNIC 1647 Cole Mill Road, Durham Read more:A Man of Smoked Meat: Barbecue Authority John Shelton Reed Talks Exporting a Southern Tradition On top of each table at Picnic, Durham’s new craft barbecue joint, a bottle of sauceor “dip,” if your allegiances lean toward Lexingtonclaims to offer the perfect compromise between North Carolina’s two vernacular…
A Man of Smoked Meat: Barbecue Authority John Shelton Reed Talks Exporting a Southern Tradition
My first encounter with John Shelton Reed came during my final semester in college, when I was his student during his final semester teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill. His course on the sociology of the South challenged students to see it as a region that, while by no means homogenous, has an identity as distinctive as…
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